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Mind
Art & Science of Meditation unconscious mind and close to our divine layer. Negative karma give negative results in this life, the next life or future lives. Similarly, positive thoughts, positive emotions, positive thinking, give positive results in our lives. To use mind positively, we have to tame it, cultivate it, and control it by our willpower. Also we have to similarly grow our consciousness or awareness, through meditation. Deep meditation teaches us to tame and control our mind positively, positive use of mind teaches us we do our duty, responsibility, and work accordingly. Similarly we can use our mind for constructive ability or creative ability. This positive, constructive or creative ability can be very useful to the whole society. Innovative or novel ideas, if positive, can also be very useful to the society and the whole world. E.g. Mahatma Gandhi brought independence to the country of India through non-violence.
Similarly mind can be used positively for spiritual development and after lots of effort and lots of time in meditation, one can achieve self-realization. e.g. Lord Mahavir, who remained in the forest for more than 12 years thinking again and again, contemplating and meditating, ultimately found the whole truth through deep and continuous meditation, and then guided others to do the same. He himself accepted the Jain philosophy, accepted non-violence, and achieved self-realization.
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